Active Career Management: A Practical Guide to a Fast-Track Career Path for Business Professionals

Whether you are just entering college or in the middle of your career, Active Career Management provides a comprehensive yet highly practical guide for accelerating your business career. This book is built on the premise that rapid career ascension can be attained by anyone that is willing to take an "active" role in managing a limited but critical list of factors to dramatically slant the odds in their favor. Designed with the intention of helping to take the emotion out of important elements of career management decision-making, logical frameworks and techniques are provided to support everything from interviewing and job selection to why and when to consider changing employers. Leading off where education and traditional career advice stops short, Active Career Management discusses many of the critical but rarely addressed factors such as managing perceptions, how to "create" sponsorship, understanding competition, and other relevant elements of successfully navigating through the complexities of a corporate environment. To augment the techniques provided in the book, an accompanying website is provided at www.activecareermanagement.com with tools being frequently added to help readers with complex decision-making such as whether or when to consider an MBA.